{"id":416758,"date":"2017-12-13T08:54:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T12:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=0b11ae334a48ffc83b7817d074322f0e"},"modified":"2017-12-13T08:54:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-13T12:54:53","slug":"how-crashing-neutron-stars-killed-off-some-of-our-best-ideas-about-what-dark-energy-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=416758","title":{"rendered":"How crashing neutron stars killed off some of our best ideas about what &#8216;dark energy&#8217; is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was much excitement when scientists witnessed the violent collision of two ultra-dense, massive stars more than 100m light years from the Earth earlier this year. Not only did they catch the resulting gravitational waves \u2013 ripples in the fabric of spacetime \u2013 they also saw a practically instantaneous flash of light. This is exciting in itself and was the first direct evidence for a merger of neutron stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was much excitement when scientists witnessed the violent collision of two ultra-dense, massive stars more than 100m light years from the Earth earlier this year. Not only did they catch the resulting gravitational waves &ndash; ripples in the fabric of spacetime &ndash; they also saw a practically instantaneous flash of light. This is exciting in itself and was the first direct evidence for a merger of neutron stars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=416758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416759,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416758\/revisions\/416759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}